+ Kinfolk Volume Seven
NO. SEVEN is here, just in time to compliment my morning coffee – a perfect duo as the opening act to the weekend. And this one even promises ice creams! I’ll keep this one brief as a teaser for the latest issue of Kinfolk: A Guide For Small Gathering. Stay informed here for a lengthier...
+ Gather Journal
From the racks of Do You Read Me?, it was Gather Journal asking to be plucked this time. Though meant as a gift, I couldn’t help but photograph the pages created by Michele Outland and Fiorella Valdesolo. It brings together concise recipes with delicious imageries and instills the inspiration to wine and dine in the...
+ Gauging Instruments
Every so often, I come across a watch that takes my breathe away. Say what you want, you know it’s true as well. That’s why “the watch” is on your wrist…or you wish it were. So I scrambled for my camera when Jon Kleinhample – the wood loving maniac behind LMBRJK – sauntered out of...
+ Railed Ring 17.825
Out of a basement design studio comes the freshly fabricated Railed Ring 17.825 by GabrielDesigns in conjunction with Brussels-based LMBRJK Studios. Product Details: 19 layers of 1mm Slovenian spruce wood – wine designed (whilst listening to Andrew Lawrence), sized to 17.825mm diameter, laser cut, glued, hand sanded, and rubbed down with teak oil finishing. More...
+ FRAMExAN+
Fear not, the title is not some mystical formula of letters for a chemical explosion. Rather, it represent the latest issue of FRAME Magazine (no. 88 to be exact) featuring Israeli architects AN+. In their white washed Florentin studio, we snuck a rare photo of Avital Gourary and Natanel Elfassy away from their office desks....
+ GABRIELDESIGNS xLMBRJK
“Cards for the blind.” Or so they’ve been nicknamed. But lasercut on black stock, these calling cards for GABRIELDESIGNS were a collaboration with Brussels-based fabricator LMBRJK. Though specialising in hand-fabricated product designs, Jon Kleinhample of LMBRJK also operates the laser-cutting service CUTSHOP. Using a 80W Co2 machine, this gig will supposedly laser anything from wood...
+ A Bike You Wish You Had
Leaned up against an inner courtyard of Tel Aviv, this custom piece is a machine you wish you had. Or at least one that will make you feel infinitely superior and cool whilst riding. And not just because of the supple BROOKS saddle but because of all the small details that separate this bike …...
+ Today’s Message
Shots taken from Williamsburg’s Black+White Gallery in 2009. Message still applies.
+ Alien Chairs
The latest addition to the AN+ chair collection. If these creatures don’t roam around and move on their own – which I suspect they do – we’ll entertain the brilliant idea of adding remote controllable (iPhone app) motors to the chairs and freak clients out during conferences.
+ Construction Sample
You must be wondering what this represents. It’s involves a plot, money, alcohol, and an Israeli tycoon. That’s all I can reveal
+ Somewhere vs. Nowhere
Newly up on the walls of AN+ Architects are the words: Somewhere better than this place. Makes one stop a bit and think…
+ VOIX: The Fundamental Group
Stephen pounds down the stairs from the design studio into the kitchen, scrambling to catch his flight with half hour to go. We assume it’s a mad dash to meet a client. In contrast, Gunnar languidly disappears for milk to make us some coffee. THE morning necessity taken care of, GabrielDesigns is then introduced to...
